1938 German parliamentary election and referendum

Parliamentary elections were held in Germany (including recently annexed Austria) on 10 April 1938.

[1] They were the final elections to the Reichstag during Nazi rule and took the form of a single-question referendum asking whether voters approved of a single list of Nazi and pro-Nazi guest candidates for the 814-member Reichstag,[2] as well as the recent annexation of Austria.

[3] The recently completed Kraft durch Freude cruise ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff was anchored in international waters near the United Kingdom to serve as a floating polling station for German and Austrian citizens living in the UK.

On 10 April 1938, 1,978 voters (including 806 Austrians) were ferried from Tilbury, east of London.

It convened only a further seven times, the last on 26 July 1942; among the measures passed was a renewal of the Enabling Act of 1933 for additional four years and a law giving Hitler power of life and death over every citizen.

Ballot reading: " Do you approve of the reunification of Austria with the German Reich accomplished on 13 March 1938 and do you vote for the list of our Führer, Adolf Hitler? "
Ballot for the Sudeten election, carried out on 4 December after the annexation of the Sudetenland . It would be the last election under Nazi rule.